I downloaded Titan's Quest last night, which took hours. It was 100% done when I got up. Then, I go to play it this morning, and Steam tells me the game will be ready to play in 4 hours, and goes on downloading(?) content.

What the hell is it doing, why does it take so long to get games "ready to play?"

Thanks shaws.

Bman212121

07-25-08, 11:54 AM

It's telling you to just run to the store and get a boxed copy because if you did you could have played it yesterday.

NiukNiuk

07-25-08, 11:56 AM

I don't know for games that are already out for a long time, but I know that when you preorder and preload a forthcoming game on steam, it "encrypts" the game data and then "decrypts" it when the game is officialy launched (and it may take a long time to decrypt).

methimpikehoses

07-25-08, 12:03 PM

It's telling you to just run to the store and get a boxed copy because if you did you could have played it yesterday.

YA RLY

It says it's updating... but this is going on 6+ hours for this podunk game. :headexplode:

Tr1cK

07-25-08, 12:04 PM

Steams network is slow as ****.

breathemetal

07-25-08, 12:13 PM

steam is stupid. id rather own a hard copy of the game

ViN86

07-25-08, 12:23 PM

idk, i got COD4 through steam. took about 2 hours to download 8GB and it was already updated to v1.7 and ready to play.

worked fine for me :confused:

LurkerLito

07-25-08, 12:40 PM

Steam is pretty fast for me. Downloading now (Silverfall package 21GB) at 2.0-2.4MBytes/Second.

nV`andrew

07-25-08, 12:45 PM

I downloaded CS:S and HL2 at the same time, got around 300 kb/s on both. It wasn't too bad.

Tr1cK

07-25-08, 01:42 PM

The last TF2 up date I got said it was moving at 700k/s but it took forever. I thought I was downloading the whole thing over again. :headexplode:

Q

07-25-08, 02:03 PM

I've had a similar problem with X2 and X3 for the last 2 years.

They will get to 100%, then continue to update for a day or week even.

Piece of ****.

methimpikehoses

07-25-08, 02:06 PM

Exactly... I don't mind the download taking a while... I get that. But how come the updates take so fricking long? No more steam game DL's for methimpikehoses.

EDIT: mother of God, it's finally ready to play. :|

LurkerLito

07-25-08, 02:54 PM

Here's a tip, sometimes I see steam just stall when updating. It says it's updating but no data is actually being sent, to fix it right click on the title name select pause update, then do it again and select resume update and it will start updating again at full speed.

bob saget

07-25-08, 03:23 PM

and it told you would need 4 MORE hours? wf something is wrong i think.

methimpikehoses

07-25-08, 03:31 PM

and it told you would need 4 MORE hours? wf something is wrong i think.

Yes, that Steam sucks.

Monolyth

07-25-08, 03:49 PM

Yes, that Steam sucks.

Enhance your calm John Spartan.

DeusGear

07-25-08, 04:41 PM

Never had a single problem with steam.

Buio

07-25-08, 04:48 PM

Maybe try and get a demo or something another time, see if it was temporary problems.